Carry Me

Another layout sewn into a page protector. Paul and Addie Blue on a hike we went on last summer.
Anna Griffin patterned paper. Foofala buttons. Mustard Moon alphabets. Heidi Swapp journalling spot. Heidi Swapp photo corners.


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Your Body: the Fish that Evolved

Stopped in at the campus bookstore the other day when I was on campus making some arrangements for returning to school in September and bought Your Body: the Fish that Evolved. Totally loved every last word of it. A fabulous concept: each chapter discusses the history of our evolution from each period of our past... what we have retained from our time as fish, our time as reptiles, amphibians, early mammals, etc. It is written so that everyone from beginner to expert can enjoy it. No need to be well studied in evolution to pick this one up. It's going to be a favourite on my shelf for years to come.


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Up, up, up and away

Last summer at Ontario Place... Paul and the girls, headed up and away, on their favourite ride (of course, all the rides are favourites).
Bazzil cardstock. Liquitex gesso. Winsor & Newton watercolour. KI Memories acrylic letters. Jenni Bowlin tickets. Heidi Swapp journalling page. Making Memories metal tags and rims. Basic Grey rub-ons. Heidi Swapp fuzzy star rub-ons. Winsor & Newton calligraphy ink. Anna Griffin patterned paper.



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the Pearl

Paul picked the Pearl by John Steinbeck up on a whim one day at a thrift shop and I poured through it a few nights ago. A very good read. I've only ever read one other Steinbeck the Grapes of Wrath, but after enjoying the Pearl, I'm definitely going to be on the outlook for more of his work. This is one of those stories that stays with you for days after you've read it.


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Purple Onion stamping

I recently had the pleasure of having lots of fun playing with some fabulous stamps by Purple On#ion Designs. I love these stamps. Love the designs. Love the images. They are so great to work with.

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Fell Out. Stamped the background and title block with flowers in pink ink. Title is done with Broken alpha. Stamped scalloped circles and deco labels on cardstock and transparency, and then sprinkled around the page. The background was stamped with paisleys on a transparency and backpainted. Oh, also used some images from the labeller set for little journalling blocks.

All ink by Stewart Superior. Heidi Swapp photo corners. Canson photo corners. American Crafts photo corners. Rhinestones by Westrim. Bazzil diecut scalloped edge. Winsor & Newton watercolour, iridescent medium. Liquitex gesso. Winsor and Newton writing ink.


Mr. B. Stamped background script onto notebook paper for the background. This has got to be one of my all-time favourite, most-used stamps. Title is done in the most fabulous alphabet stamps: Great Circus. Lots of scalloped circles here... and those great labeller set labels tossed in, too.
By the way, this is Blu, or Mr. Boobins, the most wonderful Cornish Rex kitty ever.

Bazzil cardstock. Stewart Superior ink. Winsor and Newton watercolour. American Crafts chipboard photo corners. White tape. Foofala buttons.





Love Notes. A pocket pages to hold our Valentines from this year. Pretty white flowers falling down the transparency, and pink labels to hold a few notes of my own. Broken Alpha letters embellished with glittery dots. Made paper roses by nesting a pile of scalloped journalling spots, trimmed with scalloped edge scissors, and topped with a paisley stamped button and green tissue leaves.

Bazzil cardstock. Stewart Superior inks. Velvet ribbon. Foofala buttons. Stix2Anything glitter.





All the Pretty Little Ponies. Great Circus alpha -- a great alpha. Love these flower stamps, can't stop stamping and layering them. These labels are so versatile. I love the way they can be functional, or just decorative.

Bazzil cardstock. Liquitex gesso. Winsor & Newton watercolour. Stewart Superior inks. Stewart Superior silver leafing. Winsor & Newton iridescent medium. Foofala buttons.



Pretty Little Things. Not sure why there was so much glare from the transparency when I photographed this page. More falling flowers, love them. More labels, love them. I like stamping on a transparency, and layering the images, including stamping second generation images with the residual ink left on the stamp after stamping once with it.

Bazzil cardstock. Stewart Superior inks. Creative Imaginations paper lace. Heidi Swapp photo corners. Liquitex gesso. Winsor & Newton watercolour.


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the Bridge at Andau

I have long been a fan of James A. Michener, and I'm always thrilled to find a new book at a thrift shop or garage sale by him that I haven't read before. Picked up the Bridge at Andau a little while ago and devoured it in a day. Amazing story. Much shorter than a lot of his other works, so if you've ever been discouraged by Hawaii, don't let that dissuade you from picking this one up. It is an amazing, humbling story. The strength and bravery of these people, and what they endured and how they were willing to fight and sacrifice for the daily freedoms we all take for granted was truly inspiring.


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the Glass Castle

Picked up this book: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls when staying with my in-laws on the weekend and read it on Sunday. Was a great book. Sad, and tragic, but at the same time, so inspiring. She went through so much, but she survived. She came through so much.


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thrifty lace

Some fun lacy, thrifty finds. A vintage hankerchief with pretty embroidered flowers and lace trim; a wool repair card; off white lace; a pretty piece of handtatted lace; delicate blue and white organza trim; and long lengths of purple lace, white eyelet lace; and off-white lace.


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kaleidoscope

Addie Blue with her kaleidoscope. I loved kaleidoscopes when I was a child... there is something intriguing about the shifting, repeating patterns created by glass and mirrors.
This layout was included in an article I wrote for Somerset Memories (then Legacy) last year or so, about creating a layout inside a page protector. So, the whole layout is transparent, and the yellow background is the tablecloth I photographed the layout on. I tossed some glitter inside the layout, so that is what those little specks are (I can never photograph glitter so it actually looks glittery).

Art Warehouse stamp. Stewart Superior ink. Making Memories letters. Handmade paper from the Paper Place. Heidi Swapp journalling label. American Crafts plastic stars. Westrim rhinestones. DMC embroidery floss. Assorted speciality papers and sequins

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